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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28


IT is charged by the St. Paul papers
that the spool" roads have entered in
to a scheme for getting even with the
business men of that city who have
ventured to encourage the Minnesota
& Northwestern in its reduction of the
Chicago rate. The plan by which St.
Paul is to be made to suffer is disclosed
in new joint tariff made by the spool
roads with the Manitoba and Northern
Pacific by which freight is carried to
Dakota points for about 40 per cent.
less than St. Paul jobbers have to
pay to get their goods brought from
Chicago to St. Paul and then re-
shipped to Fargo, Moorhead, etc.
The Manitoba and N. p. claim that
they were forced to make the JOINT tar
if, and the st. Paul merchants seem to
accept that view of the matter, claim
ing that the Chicago roads are at the
bottom of this attempt to kill the job
bling interests of the Twin cities. There
plainly is clear case of discrimination,
and if it is done in retaliation for favors
granted the road which is making a
fight for lower rates, we are on the side
of St. Paul. But the papers of that
city have so long upheld the same
kind of determinations in favor of their
city that now when they are getting a
dose of the same medicine we think
them entitled to little sympathy, es
pecially from those places which have
suffered SO grievously in the past. We
shall be interested to know what argu-
ment will be used against The railroads
in this case. Can it be that they will
fall back upon the principal of the
long and short haul clause, that provis-
ion they have SO ridiculed and malign
ed in the past?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

AND now it is Civil Service Commits
sioner Edgerton who comes to the re-
lief of the Democratic central CON-
mittees. He says there is nothing to
hinder civil service employee from
contributing to the campaign fund, if
he does it when nobody is looking
or words to that effect. The clerks
will not be apt to thank Mr.. Edgerton
for his intimatlon that the bleeding
process may go on uninterrupted, but
of course the funds must be forthcom-
ing to brace up this reform admins
tration these election times. Mr.. Ed
gerton is very severe in his structures
upon the position recently taken by
his colleague, Mr.. Oberly, that gov
eminent employees who engage in
political work violate civil service
rules. Mr.. Edgerton doubtless differs
from Oberly, who says the Democ-
racy when in power ought to practice
what it preached while out of power.
To Mr.. Edgerton 1t seems sufficient
that his party is on top, without max
ing too scrupulous inquiry as to how
it got there, and following out that
idea he isn't gong to be over particu-
lar in his devices for staying there.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28
AS to the rise and fall of the ''boom,

AS to the rise and fall of the "boom, J"
presidential and otherwise, the Inter-
Oeean philosophers thusly
The boom is an event of youth. The
sophomore gees through il what time his
chums see< in him future President,
philosopher, or poet. Maturity seldom
flows over or even anywhere nearly up
to the boom; the man who was to have
been President is lucky il he gets to be
Congressman, or even clerk of his native
county; he who was to have been philos-
opher Will do well if he grow into an ed
itorial writer OH newspaper of decent
circulation; and as to him who was to
have been poet, well will 1t be for him If
some uncle leave him some competency
sufficient for clean shirts or plain din
ners, or, better, if some congregation, of
which sweet woman is the more numer-
Gus and influential constituent, choose
him for its minister. But the young men
feel the impulse of the boom forever and
aye. 1t carries them far short of the dis
lance that its brief impetus promised,
but il carries them far beyond whittier
they would have gone unaided.
Concerning Omaha, Kansas City, Du-
luth, and number of places of less note,
these trite moralizing are revived. These
young and sophomore cities have been
enjoying their bOoms. Their admirers
have predicted for them in the near flu
ture that place which Chicago now holds.
1t is pretty and, to them, beneficial de-
fusion. Heaven creates such general
ais Napoleon and such city as Chicago
once in each ten thousand years. They
make and mark epochs in history. They
create great, yet minor forces. Because
Rome was great therefore Carthage was
great, but Carthage was not great with
the greatness of Rome.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

THE newspaper correspondents who
were at Atlanta with the presidential
party make out very bad case for the
effect of prohibition in that city, Fred
Mussey, in the Cincinnati Commereial
Gazette, charges that any kind of Ii
quor desired can be had openly in any
of the hotel bar rooms and saloons of
the city under the disguise of "nerve
stimulants." He says that at no point
along the route did he see so many
drunken orgies and intoxicated men as
at Atlanta, where the morning after
the Presidential reception the police
court was crowded with plain and
ornamental "drunks" of all descrip-
tons. This testimony of an unpreju-
diced witness most clearly condemns
the prohibition ordinance of Atlanta,
which, though passed by a majority
vote is certainly not upheld by the
public sentiment of the city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

THE Waseca Herald will please note
that we have not called temperance
men cranks. The cranks are those
narrow minded persons who demand
prohibition or nothing, who prefer
free whisky to high license, who in
dulge in twaddle about "blood money"
and denounce everybody who don't
view matters in their own small-souled
light as the friends and advocates of
the saloon. We submit that many
advocates of high license are just as
good temperance men as are to be
found among the prohibitionists, and
the fact that they do not favor the
utterly impractical idea of wiping out
the liquor traffic with one legislative
stroke, is no reason why they should
be characterized as friends of the sa-
loon. The HeraLTs statement that
none of the license money goes to the
county or state is a small way of get.
ting out of a hole. Whether it goes
to the city, county or state, it is all
the same thing-it hghtens the bur-
den of taxation. If it is used in city
improvements so much the better for
the farmer, who is interested in moth
ing more than the building up of live,
prosperous business and market points.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28


SOME two months ago, when the IL
linois Central and Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul railroads advanced switch
ing charges from 81 to So per car,
and refused to switch cars detained for
competitive points on the Minnesota &
Northwestern and Chicago, Burlington
* Northern at any price, indignant
shippers of Dubuque, Iowa, called up
on the State Railway Commissioners
for relief. The Board met in Dubuque,
heard the case fully, discussed it and
rendered a decision against the Central
and St. Paul roads, fixing switching
charges at 81 per Car for one mile or
less, $I.5o for two miles, S. for three
miles, and also ordering the roads to
switch cars for competing points when
requested. The companies refused to
obey the order, and Wednesday suit
was instituted against them by Attor,
ney- General Baker on behalf of the
State. The petitions ask for manda.
mus compelling them to obey the or.
der, and asks for 81 900 attorneys fees
from each defendant. Railway com,
panies will learn after awhile that the
public has some claim to fairness and
justice that they are bound to respect
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

THE correspondent of the Chicago
Meas is still tagging Mr.. Blaine and
sending to his paper stories that give
themselves away. The latest is that
the Maine statesmen is greatly wor-
ried by the report that Mr.. Depew's
recent panic interview was the result
of an understanding made when those
two gentlemen were together at Ham
burg. The fact probably is that Mr..
Blaine is ignorant that any such inter
view was ever printed. Mr.. Blaine is
living quietly in Paris, annoying no.
body and certainly not bothering him.
self about political affairs in this coun-
try. This ought to preclude his being
lied about, but there are papers that
have sort Of mania for misrepresent-
ing Blaine on every possible occasion,
They are likely to have an opportunity
for displaying their talents within the
next year, as the indications are tina,
when the Plumed Knight does make
up his mind to return to the United
States he will be greeted with boom
that will carry him into the presiden
tial chair SO triumphantly that it viii
take the wind out of all the gang O
Mugwumps and Democrats who make
specially of lying about him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28
THE national Republican com

THE national Republican commit
tee will meet at Washington Dec. 9Th
to decide upon place for holding the
next Republican national convention.
There are number of cities which
will enter the contest for the prize,
and among the leaders is Minneapo-
lis, whose citizens have prepared an
address to the committee setting forth
the considerations which make Min
neapolis an eligible point for the ma
tional convention. The address makes
out strong case in favor of the Flour
city. but no stronger than the facts
will warrant. Minneapolis has all
the essentials of a convention city and
that it is becoming to be SO regarded is
evidenced by the many gatherings
which have been held there the past
year. The national committee will
do wrong if it lightly turns aside the
claims of the Northwest to the next
convention. Minneapolis has ample
hotel and hall accommodations, and
the address shows that it is as equally
accessible by rail from all parts of the
country as Chicago. Besides these
considerations, there are others of a
political character which make it ad-
visable that the Northwest, that great
region which is to play most promi-
nent part in the public affairs of the
next few years, be recognized in this
matter. By all means hold the con-
vention at Minneapolis. Next to that
city, the people of this section of the
country doubtless would prefer Chi
cago, owing to its central location and
the fact that former conventions held
there have been highly successful af-
fairs, Washington, which is said to
be making vigorous fight for the
prize, is too far at one side.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

GENERAL GREELY, who has already
added some valuable and important
features to the Signal Service, notably
the weather crop bulletin, has made
another excellent move in stationing an
indication officer at St. Paul. This
officer will now receive the reports
from the Northwestern portion of the
continent, and at once issue cold wave
warnings for the Northwest from St.
Paul. This arrangement will give the
Northwest an intimation of impending
changes of temperature several hours,
at least, before they occur. Comment
ing upon this action the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette says:
cit did look rather curious that the
fact of cold wave entering the extreme
Northwest was first telegraphed to the
central signal Office at Washington, and
the prediction of a cold wave then sent
back to the Northwest from that office.
1t was like directing an observer to be
on the watch, and at once inform the
chief Office of the breaking of an Ice
gorge, so that prediction to that effect
might be issued from the central office
in the interest of river men. 1t might,
perhaps, be compared to an announce
inent from an official in Washington to
an official in Boston that the sun was ris-
ing. The Boston man would be apt to
be already aware of the fact"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

IT is sad to read the following New
York special. 1t divulges a state of
affairs that isrrdeplorable:
''The one item of news at Demo-
cratic State headquarters to-day was
the report that President Cleveland
will appear in the State before the
close of the campaign to stir up his
friends to activity. 1t was given out
by an officer of the State committee,
but no amount of pressure for further
information would induce him or any
others to give the details. The Presi-
dents friends distrust the sincerity OF
efforts made to get the President to
come home for such a purpose. They
say it would not only drive away his
independent supporters, but would put
the burden of defeat on his own Shout
ders if defeat comes as they now ex'
pect. They think the invitation a
deliberate attempt to get Mr.. Cleve'
land Sin a hole"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

The Princes of Wales and her
daughters, it is announced, will be
able to return to England from Copen-
hagen in time to celebrate the ami
versary of the Princes of Wales birth
on November 9.
The coke operators at Pittsburg
say they will not grant the 81 pei
cent. advance demanded by the K. o.
L. cookers, and that they no not fear a
strike.
1t is reported that the Sugar Trus,
is likely to go to pieces owing to the
fact that the Standard Refinery, OF
Boston, insists on its right to complete
its arrangements for new refinery a
| Baltimore,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

ABOUT the. only point Mr.. Roger
Prior made in his argument before the
supreme judges in the anarchists cases
was that there were men on the jury
who read newspapers and had prejudi-
ces against the murder of policemen.
These antiquated objections will hard
ly prevail in this case. If no better
reason can be given, there is not much
danger that the Supreme Court will
decide to interfere.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

THE Anarchists are no doubt justified
in grabbing at every straw the same as
any drowning man, and the three
weeks which is left to them will be
well occupied in this manner. There
is, however, no reason to suppose that
the U. S. Supreme Court will interfere
or has any right to do so. The Gov
ernor of Illinois might pardon the men,
but there is little or no likelihood of
that. The seven are condemned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

WHATEVER else may happen, Mr..
A. J. Blethen will be one OF the best
advertised men in the country. He
was universally branded as a coward
and many other uncomplimentary
epithets, applied to him and now every
paper that did so will feel under obliga-
tons to apologize, or al least give Mr..
b. the benefit of his denial of inspiring
or writing the Cleveland editorial.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

THE New York Star pretendS to
think that the WorM of that city is
secretly working:for the Republicans
with the purpose of bringing out Ros-
coe Conkling7as a presidential candi-
date. The Star is a trifle weak in
that the Republican party
would accept a candidate proposed by
a Democratic paper, especially Roscoe
Conkling.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

The following bit of information is
interesting: at is not true that the
Booth Barrett combination will visit
Washington during the winter. Edwin
Booth has never played in Washing
ton. and never even visited that city
since the fatal tragedy at Ford's thea
ter in April, 1865, which made his
brother, John Wilkes Booth, infamous.
Edwin Booth has visited and played
in Baltimore, and hundreds of Wash
ingtonians have gone over there to see
and hear him, but it is well-known
that he will never come to this city
again under any circumstances"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

THERE Is proposition before the
Chicago board of education to appro-
pirate a small sum of money to buy
clay to be used for modelling purposes
in the schools. Several members of
board very vigorously oppose the
measure on the ground that the TWEEN
ty minutes proposed to be given to
modelling can be better applied than
in the occupation which they style
"mud pie making" Inasmuch as the
modelling is only to be done in the
primary departments, where some di-
versions of the kind are necessary, and
as it is part of the kindergarten sys-
tenn which has in SO many places re-
suited so excellently, it is likely that
the opposition Of the members to the
"mud pie business" will be overcome.
Discussion of the matter prompts the
Inter Ocean to the following outburst,
which every school director will feel
like thanking the editor for:
Our sympathy, however, is with the
members of the fchool board. They
are probably more closely watched aud
more severely criticised than any other
class of unpaid public officers. Their de-
partment of public service brings them,
in a certain sense, closer to the people
than any other. Every change in
courses of study is liable to misconstruc-
ton, and every attempt to improve the
text books or paraphernalia of the
school-room is liable to be charged to sin
lister motives. If they are progressive
| they are said to be reckless; if conser-
vative, it is charged that they are slow
and lazy, and give too little attention to
the schools. If German and French
are introduced, it is said that pupils
should be taught practical lessons; if the
kindergarten system is added, it is criti-
cised as child's play. Whenever an in
telligent schoolman or schoolma' am has
recommended that practical branches
| be engrafted, there is a cry of fear lest
the children of the public schools are in
danger of learning too much for their
own good. For these and other similar
cases the lot of the school board is not
altogether "a happy one.' howsoever
painstaking and conscientious the mem
| Der may be.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

The dismantling of the Baltimore
and Ohio telegraph offices in the vari-
Gus cities and the connection of the
wires with the Western Union offices
is a rather sad performance. 1t serves
as reminder that the telegraph mon
opoly in this country is complete. The
B. & o. was the only formidable or
successful rival that ever shared profits
with the Western Union monopoly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

THE postoffice department is said
to be of the opinion that it would be
unwise to enforce the law forbidding
the printing of advertisements upon
envelopes and wrappers. The P. O.
d. is right, and if it has any doubt
about it just let few business mems
mail matter be excluded from the
mails upon that ground.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

AN enterprising Dakotan has in
vented what he calls sailing wagon"
1t is simply the appliance of common
sails to road wagon in such a man.
ner that in a faif breeze the vehicle
spins along at the rate of fifteen or
twenty miles an hour 1t is much
more entitled to the name "prairie
schooner" than the affair drawn by
horses. We should think the inven-
ton very valuable one, especially to
the citizen who is able to furnish the
wind himself-and there are few genu-
ne Dakotans who can not.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28
The importance-of early ant

THE importance'of early and sue
cesSful forecasts of cold waves is the
greatest perhaps in the Northwest. In
order to meet the needs of that section
of country and to comply with the
earnest application from citizens and
bodies of great vested val
ues, the chief signal officer has decid-
ed to station an indication officer at
ST. Paul at once. This arrangement
will enable that officer to receive his
reports an hour earlier than in Wash
ington, and will further enable him to
send out warnings of cold waves in
this section from two to five hours
earlier than is now done.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28
THE Iowa nrobibitionists have been

THE iowa prOHIDItIOI1lStS Have Dee1I
found mapping. They were not rep
resented at the hearing of the motion
before the U. S. supreme court to hear
four test cases from Iowa, but the
liquor men were on hand all right, and
the court has refused to grant the mo-
ton asked. The court claimed it had
but recently decided substantially the
same questions. A new motion has
been made by the prohibitionists to
allow them another hearing and it will
likely be given.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

INAsMUcH as Cashier Harper is in
the indictment charged with fify-six
crimes and mlsdemeanors, and the as
sistant cashier with forty-eight, the
probability of their being found to
some extent guilty ought to be pretty
good. Joe Wiltshire, the wheat broker,
who manipulated the great Chicago
corner, and Miss Jessie Holmes, the
confidential clerk, are also on the list
for half dozen or more counts. AL
the Fidelity sort of financeer-
ing is apt to become unpopular.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

INDICTMENTS have been found
against the president and cashier of
the wrecked Fidelity bank of Cincin-
natl, and also against the confidential
lady clerk, who is said to have known
as much about the inside workings of
the bank as anybody. The govern
ment is doing right in so vigorously
prosecuting this case. The criminal
as well as the pecuniary responsibility
for the great collapse should be put
upon the right men, and justice should
be melted out to them without mercy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28
ANOTHER test of the Westinghouse

ANOTHER test of the Westinghouse
air brake applied to freight cars was
made at Chicago last Friday. The
test was more thorough and even
more successful than that made at St.
Paul recently. 1t clearly illustrated
the practicability of the new invention,
and foreshadows revolution in the
methods of stopping freight trains and
a reduction of the wrecks and disasters
which are now so frequent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

IT was curious sort of satisfaction
which that desperate at Maxfeld,
Iowa, got the other day in his murder
of the Mayor of the town just prior to
committing suicide. We should think
he would have wanted to live while
to enjoy the results of his ''evening up"
process, as he styled it. Otherwise he
might have killed himself and allowed
the Mayor to live.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

JEFF DAVIS is the attraction at the
opening of the Macon exposition in
Georgia. A dispatch says his train
was welcomed at various points along
the route by salute of 100 guns. The
Southern people doubtless never will
quit making fools OF themselves over
poor old Jeff. Their nonsense is as
harmless as the old fellow himself.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

FRANK HURD says he will make ten
free trade speeches in Ohio before
election day. He had better be about
it as the time is growingishort. Frank
had to make more than that number
of speeches to, defeat himself for Con
gress last fall, but then he labored in a
district that generally gives two thous-
and Democratic majority. 1t is likely
that in the State at large Franks ten
free-trade harrangues will be sufficient
to bury General" Powell beneath a
thousand majority.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28

SOMEBODY at st. Paul wants to hold
an international military encampment
at the State fair grounds in May next.
The protector would have it so ar
ranged that in case there was a small
attendance the prizes wouldn't have to
be paid. He did not state how en-
tries would be secured under such pro-
visions.